HCL Wins Big Education Projects From HP, Kerala Govt

HCL Infosystems has bagged multi-crore deals from Education Departments in Kerala and Himachal Pradesh (HP).

HCL Learning, an education division of HCL, recently bagged `40 crore project from Department of Higher Education, HP. The project entails setting up of fully integrated information and communication technology labs and multimedia classrooms in 628 senior secondary schools in HP. The project also involves training 6,000 teachers.

HCL has also won another large deal to supply notebooks for the IT@School project in Kerala. The first phase of the deal that HCL won entails supply of 6,500 notebooks and netbooks.

The IT@School project is an initiative of the state government to facilitate ICT based education in over 8,000 schools targeting students between Class V-VIII. The state government plans to purchase 80,000 notebooks and netbooks over the next one year under this project and will float separate tenders for different phases.

JV Ramamurthy, President and COO, HCL said, “We have always been committed towards the cause of revolutionising education in the country through adoption of technology and we are grateful to be associated with this prestigious projectIT@School by the Kerala government. We are equally delighted to be a part of the HP government's education initiative to set up multimedia classrooms.”